HOW TO – Watercolor Snowflakes
Make and Takes puts a colorful spin on paper snowflakes with these watercolor coffee filter flakes.
Year: 2009
Safety alarm clock
Instructables user dylan2106 writes: I often find getting out of bed in the morning a bit tricky. When i have somewhere to be at a certain time, i get up pretty reliable. However when I want to get up it always seems that I manage to turn off my alarm clock before fully waking up. […]
Build your own tube amplifier
Here’s another tube amplifier kit that is pretty easy to build with some basic electronics skills. These amps make nice living room ornaments although the transformers on the top should probably be avoided if you have young children. via UnPlggd
Made in Japan – 1/16/09
This week: “One-Chip” Arduino, Making Dot Paintings w/ Bubble Wrap, More Decochari, Recotana’s AVR-based OSC Server, Gundam Bento, Life Preservers Replaced With Recycled DIY Flotation Devices, Making Glasses From the Bottoms of Bottles. “One-Chip” Arduino Make: Japan blog points us to Kosaka’s “One-chip Arduino” project that puts a Lilypad-style Arduino on the back of a […]
Recycled speakers and tangled wires make beautiful music
London based artist Haroon Mirza makes interesting handmade music projects out of old speakers, homebrew amplifiers, old radios, motors, and buckets of water. This piece is called “Canon Remix” and plays off of the vibrations that these speakers cause. Check out the site for lots of videos of his other musical projects. Haroon Mirza
Anatomical Heart Template
Sheila tips us off to this fun anatomical heart template from Cheeky Magpie, which you can download and use to create all kinds of fun Valentine’s Day cards and decorations.
Eccentric Cubicle book excerpt: improvisational fabrication
Here’s another Make: Books PDF excerpt, this time from Eccentric Cubicle. In the introductory chapter, author Kaden Harris explains the philosophy of improvisational fabrication: A Maker’s life is rarely fully funded, with an unlimited budget, a state-of-the-art shop facility, and a team of brilliant young assistants poised to spring into action and help bring a […]
